It's Not Self Sabotage. It's self protection.

It's not self sabotage. It's self protection.

🔍 It’s Not Self-Sabotage. It’s Self-Protection.
Have you ever noticed a client start doing really well in therapy… and then suddenly disengage? Stop showing up? Pull back just as things improve?

In this LIVE, we talk about why this isn’t failure or resistance — it’s often self-protection, especially for clients with trauma and high ACE scores. We explore how progress can activate fear, shame, and vulnerability, and why healing can feel more dangerous than staying stuck.

We’ll connect this pattern to trauma, attachment, and the ACE Study, reframing so-called “self-sabotage” as a survival strategy that once kept clients safe. When growth threatens the protective system, withdrawal can feel necessary.

If you’ve ever wondered:
• Why clients disengage after progress
• Why success can trigger fear or shame
• How trauma bonds people to familiar pain
• How to reframe “self-sabotage” clinically
This conversation is for you.

💡 Healing doesn’t just challenge the problem — it challenges the system that helped someone survive.

Video drafted from: Academy on Violence and Abuse (Vincent Felitti)
   • ACE'S by Vince Felitti, MD  

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